Mary Elizabeth Tyler

Mary Elizabeth Tyler (10 July 1881-10 September 1924) was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, the Anti-Saloon League, and the Southern Publicity Association.

Biography
Mary Elizabeth Tyler was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1881, and she was a volunteer hygiene worker during the 1910s. She co-founded the Southern Publicity Association with Edward Young Clarke, promoting temperance and public health causes; she also joined the Anti-Saloon League and helped Clarke organize the revived Ku Klux Klan, pocketing 80% of each new klansman's fee for herself. She supported temperance, anti-communism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism, and, in 1923, she was forced out of the Klan after being accused of financial misconduct. She moved to Altadena, California, where she died in 1924.